Osteophygis (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Lower Tertiary of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco

Palaeontology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 845-856

  Hirayama, Ren ^a   Tong, Haiyan ^b  

^a TEIKYO HEISEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Cheloniidae; Lower Tertiary; Morocco; Osteopygis; Palaeobiogeography; Systematics; Testudines

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TERTIARY; TURTLE;

MOROCCO; OULED ABDOUN BASIN;

CHELONIIDAE; OSTEOPYGIS; OSTEOPYGIS EMARGINATUS; TESTUDINES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141838087     PISSN: 00310239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00322     Document Type: Article

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